Re: COMMON Update... - the Porsche give-away?

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

as I recall, iSeries caught alot of shit from IBM internal for out doing 
pSeries, xSeries and zSeries at that show as well...

Interesting what marketing can do when you really want to sell 
something...

Don in DC

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Anyone remember how the other vendors were upset when IBM gave away a car
> at LotusSphere years ago at their AS/400 booth?  Crowds packed around the
> booth.  The lines literally cut off access to the other hardware vendor
> booths.  Grievances filed from these other vendors, etc.  (But at least
> they did give the car away.)  The advertising at LotusSphere, airports,
> etc at that time was intense for the AS/400.  They sold AS/400's to run
> Domino like hotcakes.  Local IBM sales rep (remember them?) said that he
> was walking into accounts that he didn't even know had AS/400's because
> Domino was pushing iron so fast.
>
> Lotus Notes advertising was so intense that my teenage daughter was
> literally awestruck that I used Notes.
>
> Rob Berendt
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